He was not charged with drug driving, despite being two and a half times over the legal limit for cannabis.

He was jailed for 12 months and handed a two and a half year driving ban.

GLYN THOMAS

Glyn Thomas, 68, arriving at Liverpool Crown Court for a hearing, after he was accused of sexual offences against two girls.

Violent child rapist Glyn Thomas sexually tortured one of his victims and threatened to rent her out to other abusers.

The pensioner, who was said to have a “life limiting” illness, is now likely to die in jail after being sentenced to 19 years behind bars.

The 68-year-old ruthlessly exploited two girls for his own cruel sexual desires, even forcing one to mimic scenes from his porn collection so he could live out his vile fantasies.

He was jailed after a jury convicted him of 11 counts of rape, six counts of indecent assault, five counts of sexual assault and two counts of causing a child to engage in sexual activity in relation to one victim.

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He was convicted of two counts of indecent assault and one count of sexual assault in relation to the second woman.

Appearing in the dock at Liverpool Crown Court on Monday, a dishevelled Thomas sat in silence as Judge Alan Conrad QC summed up the shocking nature of the sexual predator’s offences.

Describing them as “truly horrifying”, he praised the victims for coming forward to police and slammed Thomas as an arrogant abuser who subjected them to “further depravities” for his own satisfaction.

Thomas was then made to stand, leaning onto his crutch, as Judge Conrad delivered the 19 year sentence, with an additional year on extended licence.

He will serve at least half of that before a parole board can even consider him for release.

Thomas will be on the sex offenders register for as long as he lives and subjected to a sexual harm prevention order.

MICHAEL WILSON

Michael Wilson, 38, of Gorsey Lane in Wallasey, was jailed for six years after admitting drugs offences. Image courtesy of Merseyside Police (Image: Handout)

Wilson was jailed after police found cocaine and heroin worth almost half-a-million pounds when they busted a Wallasey drugs den.

Officers discovered the huge illicit haul when they raided the 38-year-old’s Gorsey Lane home two months ago.

He was locked up for six years after admitting producing cannabis, possessing cannabis and heroin with intent to supply and money laundering.

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He then left her for dead, wandering the streets and sending messages to other women before he was finally arrested that night. Through a post mortem pathologist Dr Alison Armour concluded Vikki had suffered a “violent assault” in which she was strangled, adding the alcohol she had consumed would have limited her ability to fight back.

The amount of force used would have been “significant”, Dr Armour reported.

Mahoney pleaded guilty to murder just days before his trial was due to start. He will serve at least 15 years, 219 days behind bars.

BRETT CIHLAR

Brett Cihlar, of Lincoln Street, Barrow was involved in a fight outside a Tranmere game. The 45-year-old was jailed for four months and handed a six year football banning order.

Football thug Cihlar was jailed for his part in a brawl that also saw nine others banned from games after violence erupted outside a Tranmere Rovers match.

Trouble flared at a pub near Rovers’ Prenton Park home just after kick-off in the club’s FA Trophy match with AFC Barrow in February.

CCTV footage captured flurries of punches and kicks being delivered - with one fan even knocked unconscious during the chaos.

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Cihlar, of Lincoln Street in Barrow, suffered the worst of the injuries in the chaos, but was the only one to be jailed due to his criminal past.

The 45-year-old previously had an international football banning order and had received 25 sentences for a total of 39 offences. He was jailed for four months and handed a six year football banning order.

JAMES O’GRADY

James O'Grady of Huntly Road, Fairfield, pleaded guilty to burglary after ransacking a Bootle home.

O’Grady was jailed for two years and eight months for a cocktail of offences - including the ransacking of a Bootle home where he knocked over an urn containing ashes.

The 20-year-old, of Huntly Road in Fairfield, had only been freed from jail five days before his crimes.

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Blowes was locked up for 60 months after a judge described his actions as “as bad a case of dangerous driving that a court will encounter”.

Blowes, of Knowsley Road in Southport, admitted dangerous driving, possession of cocaine with intent to supply, driving while disqualified and driving without insurance.

WAYNE CROW

Wayne Crow, 56, of Stanlaw Road, in Ellesmere Port, was found guilty of eight historic sex offences against a child and sentenced to six years in prison and ordered to sign the sex offenders register for life. (Image: Handout)

Hospital porter Crow was jailed for six years for historic sexual offences against a child.

The 56-year-old was convicted of eight sexual offences against a male victim.

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Nixon stole cash from a Skoda estate car parked in Rutherglen Avenue on 26 September, stole two jackets from a Nissan Juke parked on Glenby Avenue on 27 September and was caught trying to break into a Vauxhall Astra on Glenby Avenue on the same day. He was jailed for 16 weeks.

STEPHEN WAINE

Stephen Waine, 48, of Fieldway Court, Birkenhead was jailed after a court heard how he had stubbed cigarettes out on his partners back

Controlling Waine was jailed this week after a court heard he had horrifically stubbed out cigarettes on his partner’s back.

He was also accused of putting his hands around her throat, spitting in her face, dragging her around by the hair, threatening her with scissors and slapping her in the face.

This bungling gang of crooks were jailed for a total of 29 years after a string of botched cashpoint raids.

The men attempted to carry out ram-raids on Co-op stores across South Devon by dragging free-standing cashpoint machines using a Land Rover - but failed miserably.

A court heard how, in the first raid, in Dartmouth, the tow bar fell off the 4x4, and, in the second, the strap they had wound around the ATM snapped, meaning both times they left empty-handed.

Pictured is Johnny Vaughan

Pictured is Robin Vaughan

Despite several failed attempts, three out of the five men were also convicted of a separate terrifying assault where they battered a security guard with a hammer.

The court was told the robbery was carried out at 10.45pm on May 18, 2016 when a G4S van was attacked as one guard was inside the Brixham branch of Santander bank and the other was carrying a cassette of money.

Pictured is Peter Atkinson

Pictured is James Brewer

He was hit over the head with a weapon thought to be a hammer. Jonny Vaughan and Peter Atkinson seized the money and ran to a getaway car driven by Robin Vaughan.

James Brewer, 35, of Brookwood Street, Liverpool; Ian Harris, 36, of Hele Road, Torquay; as well as Robin and Jonny Vaughan, all pleaded guilty to conspiracy to burgle.

Joseph Field was also jailed for other offences linked to the same gang. The 35-year-old, of Willow Grove in Warrington, was jailed for four-and-a-half years after also admitting conspiracy to cause explosions.

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City of Liverpool College manager locked up for helping drug growing boyfriend launder £100,000

They were nabbed after their six week “campaign of burglary” through evidence including CCTV footage from the buses, their Walrus card and phone usage and DNA results.

Martin McQuilliams, 28, of Dingle Vale, Dingle jailed for six years

McQuilliams, 28, of Dingle Vale, Dingle, and Ballard, of no fixed address, both pleaded guilty to conspiracy to burgle involving targeting 23 homes.

Both men were jailed for six years by Judge Clement Goldstone QC, Recorder of Liverpool who branded them “professional burglars”.

Judge Goldstone, told 26-year-old Ballard, who has already served five years for a string of virtually identical hook and cane burglaries in 2011: “They were professional burglaries and professional burglars have to be dealt with by the imposition of professional sentences in the hope they will deter your commission of similar offences in the future.”

PAUL ROBERTS

Paul Roberts and his partner Deborah Briton

A Wallasey couple who claimed nearly £200,000 by lying about suffering food poisoning on holiday were jailed in a landmark case.

Paul Roberts and Deborah Briton are the first people to be prosecuted over such bogus sickness claims, which they lodged with Thomas Cook.

Roberts, 43, and Briton, 53, pretended two annual family trips to their favourite resort in Majorca ended with diarrhoea and vomiting.

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But mum-of-four Briton’s gushing Facebook posts revealed they had the time of their lives and made no mention of any sickness.

Liverpool Crown Court today heard the scam could have cost Thomas Cook £19,958 in damages and £28,000 in legal costs.

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Judge David Aubrey, QC, told the sobbing pair a “message had to go out” that fraudsters like them should expect to go to prison.

Roberts and Briton sobbed and family members in court wailed as they were jailed for 15 months and nine months respectively.

JOHN SANDYS

John Sandys, 25, of Fernhill Road, Bootle, jailed for six years after admitting robbery, two attempted robberies and three counts of possessing an imitation firearm with intent to commit an offence (Image: Handout)

A drug addict who said he’d developed a “little hobby” of raiding convenience stores was locked up for six years.

John Sandys, of Fernhill Road, Bootle carried out three attacks armed with two guns - but despite the terrifying nature of his attacks, he only managed to get away with £200 and eight packs of cigarettes.

He later claimed one of the weapons was an unloaded “Dirty Harry” style .44 Magnum, but neither gun was ever recovered.

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Marsden was seen by a member of the public putting a blue rucksack into some bushes on Havisham Close in Birchwood before leaving the area.

Marsden pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply a controlled drug, possession of criminal property and dangerous driving at Liverpool Crown Court. He was sentenced to a total of seven and a half years.

ANTHONY NELSON

Anthony Nelson, 20, of Hillside Street, Everton, jailed for six months after admitting threatening behaviour and breaching a suspended sentence

Scrambler bike yob Nelson drove directly at Liverpool’s deputy mayor causing her to fear she would be run over.

Councillor Ann O’Byrne confronted the 20-year-old after she spotted him doing wheelies through a children’s play area.

The lout revved his engine and sped towards her – as she braced herself for impact – before turning sharply at the last second.

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A search of the premises revealed a .38 rimfire revolver, hidden in a cupboard under the stairs, and five live rounds of ammunition, a concoction of cocaine, other drugs, mixing agents and weighing scales.

Dermott was jailed for six years and two months after he pleaded guilty to permitting his premises to be used for the production of a Class A drug, possession of a firearm and possession of ammunition.

Forensic analysis of the gun revealed co-accused Thomas Rowan’s DNA was on the firearm and bullets.

Rowan, 24 and of Western Avenue in Speke, was jailed for seven years after he was convicted of possession of a firearm.

ANDREW HYSLOP

Andrew Hyslop, jailed for making sexualised comments to young girls

A ‘predator’ has been jailed for making sexual approaches to girls as young as 11-years-old.

Andrew Hyslop, 29, was sentenced to 18 months in jail after admitting committing offences in Skelmersdale.

He was arrested in July after four girls aged between 11 and 15 reported being approached by a man in the town.

He did not physically assault them but made a series of sexual comments.

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The court heard the 47-year-old victim, who has been left scarred for life and also has memory problems, was kicked and punched by Hemmings and his companion Mark Keogh.

Keogh, 29 and of no fixed address, who also injured Mr McColl by attacking him with a broken bottle, had also gone on the run but he too was caught and last month he was jailed for a total of eight years nine months.

Hemmings, of Pender Drive, Kirkby, was jailed for a total of seven-and-a-half-years.

PAUL HEPPLESTALL

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Hepplestall made a racist video threatening to slash Muslims and blow up mosques in the wake of two UK terrorist attacks.

He filmed himself posing with a sword and a plastic grenade hanging from his t-shirt during the explicit rant.

The hate video - recorded two weeks after the Manchester Arena bombing and the day after the London Bridge attack - went viral.